Stray Missles is a track from Little Vic’s latest compilation project, Wikileaks. This track features a random assortment of fire from Little Vic’s arsenal as doe the project in it’s entirety. We’ve been featuring music from Vic from the beginning and that’s not stopping anytime soon. The project is $5 and is a veritable steal for hip-hop connoisseurs such as myself.
The Flying Dutchman just released an album, Foul Weather, on Friday entirely produced by professional head-knocker, Vanderslice. In addition to Vanderslice, the team is comprised of emcees John Murdock and Lex Starwind. In addition to bars from those two, you also get a dope verse from Cappadonna. The sample used by Vanderslice is nasty, and I love that beat.
If you like those hard rhymes and banging beats, you need to get your hands on this release.
Spit Gemz is dropping a mixtape, See Me When I Die, on Christmas Day no less! So we are all getting a gift this year! Violence Revisited showcases Gemz rhyming over a DJ Skizz instrumental from his project from a few years ago, BQE. In my mind, this was the dopest beat off of the project, and Gemz kills it unlike anybody else…violently.
Ok. This song has a chance to be a Top 10 track of the year. It’s that damn good. I love the instrumentation on this track by C0rrado. There is so much texture to this production that the ears have no choice but to soak up the dopeness. At times it feels like 70s funk, at others it’s soul, and yet always has a boom bap appeal. The hook is next level, and easily the best I have heard in 2016. Syll and Pearl Gates also have such a smooth way with handling their verses over this ill production. Emcees and producer are like hand-in-glove for this joint.
Check the album, Play This.
M-Dot put me on to this joint he was featured on that showcases a whole different vibe from the EMS front-man. Jenova 7 & Eddie Shinn laced this spaced-out yet jazzy fore into the great unknown, while M-Dot narrates tales from galaxies far beyond. M-Dot continues to impress with great dexterity when confronted with different topics and styles. He’s the ecmee’s emcee after all.
You can check out Jenova 7 & Eddie Shinn’s project, Cosmic Safari, here.
New single from Shaz Illyork’s forthcoming album, Wide Awake. Produced by Ayden, and featuring Blank Face, Shaz releases a fury of street slang over a reworking of one of the Wu-Tang’s most noticeable beats.
I hope it won’t be too long until we get that album!
Serge Severe and Zapata reunite once again to add a classic hip hop touch to their social commentary. The country is at it’s most divisive point in the 21st Century and the fellas are here to lend some perspective to it. Zapata and Severe have always been an amazing combo. I appreciate their past collaborations perhaps more than any other recent partnership. They just sound so in sync. This soulful landscape along with truly poetic observation, make this cut one to hear.
K-Hill is back with some new music rocking over a production from D.R.U.G.S. Beats. There’s so much dope content packed into just over two minutes from both Hill and Precyce Politix. Check out just a segment of these bars. The Rolling Stones reference is so on point.
When your people try to tell you that your time’s up, it’s ego pain / Hoping years of writing for y’all weren’t done in vain / And promoters don’t want to pay you but they rape your brand / Then they talking shit about you because you force my hand / When you disrespect your own, how you taking shots at Macklemore? / One cultures’ trash is another cultures’ opens door / Only genre with an old school category / Jagger gets the money Keith Richards getting gory
This is an instant hit! The beat by DJ b-Able is one of the finest productions this year. The way he works in the soulful hook and the samples makes the song feel like a mesh of soul, blues, and boom-bap. The verses by Don Streat, Gatsby The Great, and Revalation are the proverbial dynamite. Rev in particular has some serious zingers in his verse make this track a monumental eulogy.
Gotham Green has been featured here numerous times, but it has been a minute. As a matter of fact, it has been two years since he has dropped some new music. But he truly hasn’t lost a step which is noted on this new Don Korto produced track, No Hard Feelings. The track’s tone is casual, yet definitive. Green is back but he’s not here to join the parade, he’s here to continue to carve his own path.
Don’t sleep!
Hip Hop Dependency 